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Kitchen confidence Don’t be afraid to step out of mint and oregano meatballs in a rich your comfort zone — there’s tomato sauce. My favourite so far is expert help at hand. Welsh food writer Elisabeth Luard’s warm new potato salad with mint leaves and t’s hard to argue with a title chives — simple and delicious. proclaiming It’s Always About the For lovers of Indian cuisine, there are IFood (HarperCollins, $50). Of course two new books on the shelf. If you’re just being from the gals behind the Monday looking for something yummy for dinner, Morning Cooking Club, it’s also about I’d probably opt for Anjum Anand’s friendship, and collecting and sharing I Love India (Hardie Grant Books, heirloom recipes. Their first book focused $40) — it’s packed with easy and on family and the Jewish community in enticing dishes from around the Sydney, the next went around Australia. country, including charred, spiced This one has gone global and we’re sweet potato salad and Sindhi licking our lips with anticipation at the cardamom lamb. While Anjum shares breadth of dishes, from heartwarming plenty of tips from her travels around pea and lamb soup to a decadent India, it’s not as involved as Monisha frangipani cake. As always, the MMCC Bharadwaj’s heavy tome. Aptly shares the stories of the people behind named The Indian Cookery Course the recipes and they’re just as inviting. (Simon & Schuster, $55), it takes you There could be few more enticing through the right equipment and titles for this home cook, though, than planning, lessons in those all-important Citrus (Hardie Grant Books, $40). Like spices and the basics of curries and -based author Catherine Phipps, I pastes. Even rice, in all its myriad forms love the transformative powers of the and methods, is given a chapter and humble lemon or a luscious lime — there are masterclasses in everything savoury or sweet, it works some from curry pastes to roti bread. This is for mysterious magic, so long as you’re not someone who really wants to get serious too heavy-handed. This gorgeous book about sub-continent cooking. also includes oranges, mandarins and Likewise, Annie’s Farmhouse Kitchen other less-celebrated citrus. Preserved, (Hardie Grant Books, $40) is for a cook grated, juiced, cooked, and just generally who likes to push themselves a little. treated with respect, citrus is a deserving Beautifully illustrated by Robin Cowcher, hero of so many wonderful dishes: Annie Smithers shares “seasonal menus mandarin creme caramel; lemon, mustard with a French heart”. While the chef, who and rosemary potatoes; coconut, lime has a little restaurant in country Victoria, and lemongrass chicken salad; orange says the recipes work fine as standalone and ginger butter shortbread... dishes, she hopes to “give you the The Really Quite Good British confidence to cook a well-balanced Cookbook (Echo Publishing, $50) might multi-course menu similar to those that be a wink to the notion that there’s grace my restaurant tables”. She’s nothing that great about British cooking. planned them all out to make the process Edited by William Sitwell, this is actually easier. Start with autumn (as the book more than quite good — it’s a collection does) and don’t be afraid to make of recipes from some of the old country’s mistakes. As Annie says, she’s made celebrated chefs, including , heaps. Happy cooking! Rick Stein, and Yotam Julie Hosking Ottolenghi, as well as some young guns. Asked what they would cook for the people they love, they came back with a wonderful array of dishes. Nigella chose ham in Coca-cola (don’t even consider using the diet variety) and a chocolate Guinness cake, while Rick shared veal, 25 Mar 2017 Weekend West, Perth Section: West Weekend Magazine • Article type : News Item • Audience : 242,298 Page: 21 • Printed Size: 357.00cm² • Market: WA • Country: Australia • Words: 608 Item ID: 745227342

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